Electrical and Pyrometric Measurements of the Decay of the Anode Temperature After Interruption of High-Current Vacuum Arcs and Comparison With Computations

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 644-648

  Dullni, Edgar ^a   Gellert, Bernd ^a   Schade, Ekkehard ^a  

^a ASEA Corporate Research ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

POSTARC CURRENTS; PYROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; THERMIONIC CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC ARCS;

EID: 0024749648     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.41173     Document Type: Article

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